New Banker Trojan is Designed to Leverage Facebook and Twitter Accounts

Bitdefender has exposed a dangerous new trojan, based on the now infamous ZeuS Banker Trojan. This trojan, named, Terdot, is designed to target social media and major email sites as well as banks. It is designed to gather credentials from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and YouTube and also targets email service providers such as Microsoft’s …

The CIA Uses Kaspersky to Mask Its Cyber Operations

Attribution. That's what makes most cyber attack investigations inconclusive. Attribution is what makes cybersecurity firms incapable of delineating the extent of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, if any. No matter what you may read, no one, not even cybersecurity firm, CrowdStrike, the only entity ever to get a glimpse of the DNC servers, …

The Recent Increase in Email-based Blackmail and Extortion Scams

If you get an email that threatens to expose you to colleagues, contacts, or law enforcement agencies, don't get overly concerned; unless, of course, you're a criminal. These kinds of emails have been around for a while, but have recently been on the increase and, in some cases, they are using an upgraded attack methodology. …

Reaper Madness: The Enigmatic and Potentially Deadly Reaper Botnet

We don't know where or when, but someday the Reaper will come for us all. I mean the Reaper botnet, of course. It is potentially the most dangerous botnet ever created and one of the most inept. It is a botnet that, at times, seems to be put together by a government committee and, at …